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Here is the list of our FREE April, 2010, “How To” Art Demos and Workshops at the Bellevue DANIEL SMTH Art Supply Store.  For more information on the individual FREE demos please visit our Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store Events Blog and our Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store Events Blog and for Special Events and Demos added after this list was posted.

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Saturday, April 3rd

11am & 1:45pm

 

Saturday, April 10th

11am & 1:45pm

(Don’t forget Ann’s Workshop: Watercolor: Painting Horses! April 28 & 29, 2010 at the Seattle Store )

 

Saturday, April 17th

11:30 to 2pm (Special Time!)

 

Saturday, April 24th

11am & 1:45

 

Saturday, April 24th

3pm to 5pm (Special Time!)

Just in Time for Mother’s Day!

 

Sunday, April 25th

Gage Instructor Mitchell Albala

12pm to 2pm

Have Mitchell sign your copy of his new book: Landscape Painting after his demo!

 

Bellevue April Workshops:
 
MIXED MEDIA: Pen & Ink with Watercolor with Joe MacKechnie

Exploring different ways to paint with watercolor by combining it with something else can lead to exciting discoveries as an artist.  For this workshop, Northwest Artist Joe MacKechnie will be teaching how watercolor and ink can be combined to create powerful effects and exciting paintings.

Workshop Project #1: Painting an Urban Scene

Workshop Project #2: Painting Koi Fish

 

“Don’t get stuck…let Katherine show you how easy and dynamic ideas to loosen up and make your paintings lively!  Students will learn basic fun techniques to get the joy, creativity, and confidence back in your watercolors.  Bring to class several paintings that you feel could use a fresh new look.”

 

 

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~Deborah Burns

 

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This Saturday at DANIEL SMITH Art Supply, our FREE “How To” Art demos at our Seattle Store: Acrylic with Gail Howard and at our Bellevue Store: Oil Bar with Cissy Gray.

 

 

Saturday:  Gail Howard will be sharing her tips on “ACRYLIC: The Mediums Are the Message” she notes on her website that:  ”I’ll demonstrate how I use pouring mediums to get smooth surfaces, pouring multiple layers to get great depth and how to do encaustic-like effects.” 

Saturday, January 30th at 11 am & 1:45pm
ACRYLIC: The Mediums Are the Message
Gail Howard 

 

Bellevue Store 

 

Saturday:  Cissy Gray will demonstrate how to work with oil bars and “…how they compare to oil paints.  [she'll] use nitrile gloves when painting with the oil bars to apply them much like finger painting.  [She'll] occasionally use a brush for detail.  Because the oil bar color are so vivid, you can achieve a jewel like finish.”  Cissy will also touch upon “principals of design, composition, value, color and shape….”
Saturday:  January 30th at 11am & 1:45 pm
OIL BAR: Colorful Impressions
Cissy Gray

 

This Saturday for our FREE Art Demos at our Seattle and Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Stores we have Oil Painting with Donna Trent, Watercolor with Ann Breckon, and Pastels with Don Lee.

 

Saturday, Donna Trent will be demonstrating in Oil Painting how to: “Save the White-Reveal the Shapes” in your paintings. 

Sat: January 23rd at 11am & 1:45pm
OIL: Save the White-Reveal the Shapes 
Donna Trent 

 

Seattle Store:

Also on Saturday, Ann Breckon will have a fun demonstration on painting Lamp Posts with Hanging Baskets in Watercolor.  Get in the mood for spring while Ann shares watercolor tips!
Sat: January 23rd at 12 & 2pm
WATERCOLOR: Lamp Posts with Hanging Baskets
Ann Breckon 
Don’t miss Ann’s Workshop Feb 24th & 25th Seattle Store!

 

Bellevue Store:

Saturday, Don Lee Portrait Artist Don Lee will be demonstrating how to do Portraits in Pastel.  Don’s demo is a good introduction on getting started with painting portraits in pastels, and to find out if you would like to know more and take his workshop in February. 

Sat: Jan 23rd at 11am & 1:45pm
PASTEL: Pastel Portraits
Don Lee 
Don’t miss Don’s Workshop Feb 8th Bellevue Store!

 

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This weekend for our FREE Art Demos at the DANIEL SMITH Store in Bellevue we have Multi Media using Pastel and Gouache with Lynda Lindner and Water-Soluble Oil Painting with Bruce Edwards.

 

Saturday:  January 16th, Lynda Lindner will be sharing her tips on Muli Media Painting with Pastel and Gouache.  You can see some examples of her Pastel Portraits by following the link. 

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Saturday, January 16th from 11am to 1pm
MULTI MEDIA: Pastel & Gouache
Lynda Lindner 

 

Sunday:  January 17th, Bruce Edwards will be demonstrating how to use Water-Soluble Oil Paints and How To Paint with Water-Soluble Oils.  If you have hesitated from using oils because of the solvents used with brush clean up (you can also use vegetable oil to clean up rather than turpentine etc.) or stopped using oils for the same reason, then you will be able to find out more about this alternative way to oil paint. 
Sunday, January 17th at 12 & 2pm
Oil: Water-Soluble Oil Painting 
Bruce Edwards 

 

Happy New Year!  It’s a New Year and time to get your creative juices going by coming to one of our FREE “How To” Art demos this weekend here at our Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store to inspire you!

 

Saturday, January 9th, we have Gary Greene demonstrating “Painting with Color Pencil” and sharing his techniques for creating color saturated painting with color pencil, check out his slide show of his paintings, just amazing.  

 

Saturday, January 9th at 11am & 1:45pm
COLOR PENCIL: Painting with Color Pencil
Gary Greene 

 

Gary will also have a 2 day workshop January 24th & 31st at the Bellevue Store with more on “Painting with Color Pencil”. 

Sunday, January 24th & 31st
COLOR PENCIL: Painting with Color Pencil
with Gary Greene 

Day One: Tired of struggling with watercolors, oils, acrylics, or pastels? Discover the exciting, creative, and versatile medium of color pencil. Learn about various color pencils, paper surfaces, and related materials or tools. Students will complete a study using layering techniques. Open to all levels of art experience. Participants under 16 admitted with instructor permission only.
Day Two: Learn to create vividly realistic colored pencil paintings using the “burnishing” technique. Gary will give a brief discussion of the burnishing process, and step-by–step demonstration. Participants then complete a painting from supplied notes and visual aids.
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$100 per day
11:30am to 4:30pm

 

Sunday, January 10th Janice Seino, will be demonstrating painting with acrylic and sharing tips on making textured surfaces and manipulating the surface to expand the creative expression.

 

 

This past weekend we had a Special, FREE “Hands On” Art Event, our DANIEL SMITH PrimaTek Watercolors and DS Extra Fine Watercolor Stick Extravaganza! 

 

Instead of our regular FREE “How To” Weekend Art demos at our Seattle Store and Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Stores this past weekend, we offered one of our Special “Hands On” Art Events.  These “Hands On” Events allow everyone who attends the opportunity to try out the Art Supplies featured at the Event. 

 

The Seattle Store had Annie Van Engelen in the Gallery/Demo room demonstrating, answering questions and encouraging everyone to paint using the PrimaTek Watercolors and the Watercolor Sticks on various watercolor papers:  Yupo paper, UArt Sanded Pastel Paper (wasn’t out but you could use the Wallis Archival Sanded Pastel [mulit media] Papers) and Fredrix Archival Watercolor Canvas Pad.

 

The Bellevue Store had Artists Sales Associates Craig on Saturday, and Joe on Sunday, demonstrating and answering questions at the “Try It” table set up near the front of the store while customers tried out our DS PrimaTek Watercolors and DS Watercolor Sticks for themselves.

 

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For our after Christmas FREE weekend demos at both our Seattle and Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Stores we are having a Special Hands On Event, our PRIMATEK & WATERCOLOR STICK EXTRAVAGANZA!

 

We will have our “Try It” tables set up so you can try our DANIEL SMITH PrimaTek Watercolors and our DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks.  This is a fun way to find out more about our PrimaTek and Watercolor Sticks…by using them!  We will have one of our Artist Sales Associates available to answer questions and offer guidance while you try them out during the times posted below.

 

Saturday, December 26th at 11am to 1:45pm Hands On Fun!

Sunday, December 27th from 12 to 2pm Hands On Fun!
PRIMATEK & WATERCOLOR STICK EXTRAVAGANZA
Join the store staff to learn how to add these unique colors and products to your palette

 

 

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~Deborah Burns

This Saturday for one of our FREE “How To” Art demos at our Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store we have Gail Baker demonstrating “Special Effects in Acrylic Painting – Improvisation and Experimentation“  Gail will be sharing her ideas for using Improvisation and Experimentation to drive the Creative Process for Acrylic Painting.  

 

 

 

We also are having two Workshopsthis weekend at the Bellevue Store:

 

If you haven’t tried Watercolor Sticks, this is the perfect opportunity. Che gives you step-by-step instruction on new ways to paint in the studio or on location. Materials required for the expanded section.
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$50 per day
2pm to 5pm
artofche.com

 

Learn to add texture and interest to your paintings by letting the colors show through with Gary’s unique building of pastel layers. A process that will enliven your under-painting adding dimension to your work. Materials required for the expanded section
Please register early, as class sizes are limited to 12 students
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$50 per day
1pm to 4pm
beginningartist.com 

 

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This weekend at the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store for our FREE “How To” Art demos we have Molly Hashimoto showing how to keep a Watercolor Travel Journal.  A few years ago Molly wrote an article for a DANIEL SMITH catalog on “The Art of Watercolor Journals” that you can read by following the link.  On Sunday, Deborah Stachowic will be demonstrating Watercolor Painting and how she layers the watercolors to build up rich, deep colors.  You can read about a previous demo Deborah did called “Painting Dramatic Reds“. 

 

 

Saturday, December 5th at 11am & 1:45pm
WATERCOLOR: Travel Journal 
Molly Hashimoto
Don’t miss Molly’s Workshop Jan 31st Seattle Store!

 

 

So come for some fun, learning and inspiration

 

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This coming weekend for our FREE “How To” Art demos at the DANIEL SMITH Store in Bellevue we have Suzanne DeCuir demonstrating underpainting techniques using Acrylic and Oil (check out her terrific blog) and Painting Snow using Watercolor with Gary Nelson.

 

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Saturday, November 28th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
OIL & ACRYLIC: Underpainting Techniques for Painting 

Suzanne DeCuir 

 

Sunday, November 29th at 12 & 2 pm
WATERCOLOR: Painting Snow
Gary Nelson
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Come for fun, information and inspiration!

 

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This coming Saturday, for one of our FREE “How To” Art demos at the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store, Watercolor Artist Anne Breckon will be demonstrating “Rain Figures” in Watercolor.  Of course knowing how to paint “Rain Figures” in Watercolor is an important thing to know in rainy Seattle!

 

Saturday, November 14th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Rain Figures
Ann Breckon 

 

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This weekend at our DANIEL SMITH Store in Bellevue, for our FREE “How To” Art demos we have Anne Olwin demonstrating Watercolor Techniques and Darlene Lucas with Collagraph Printmaking.

 

Saturday,  Anne Olwin demonstrating Watercolor Techniques for painting Fur, Feather and Animals, you can see some examples of Anne’s animal Watercolor work here.  If you are interested in animal portraits, or painting animals in a landscape, this would be a good FREE demo to learn a few tips, and to find out more about Anne’s November 15th Watercolor Workshop: “Fur, Feather, and Animals” with more in depth teaching.  Here is a blog post on another Watercolor & Pastel demo that Anne did.

 

Saturday, November 7th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Fur, Feather, and Animals 
Anne Olwin
Don’t miss Anne’s Workshop Nov 15th Bellevue Store!

 

Sunday, Darlene Gentry Lucas will be sharing some great texture techniques with Collagraph printmaking.  Darlene often incorporates different papers into her watercolor paintings, “She layers various rice and handmade papers to develop textures and create movement from transparent to opaque.”  So come on Sunday and get some new ideas how you might use Collagraphic techniques in your own work.

 

Sunday, November 8th at 12 & 2 pm
PRINTMAKING: Textures!!! Collagraphic Printing with a Press
Darlene Lucas
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So come for fun, learn something new (to make original Holiday Cards?) and be inspired to Make Some ART!

 

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This weekend we are having a Special FREE Watercolor Event with Winsor & Newton at both Seattle (Saturday) and Bellevue (Sunday) with Artist Christine Hanlon.  There will be FREE Goodies (!) for this Special FREE Event, seating is limited, and pre-registration is required.

 

“This lively and entertaining discussion looks at the history, techniques, and materials that spell success when working in this most legendary of mediums. Impress your friends with your knowledge of flocculation and hydrogen bonding! Learn the keys to color permanence and light-fastness! What mediums will help you capture texture and expressive gesture? What are the three benchmarks for fine water-media brushes?” 
The first 40, for Seattle and the first 30 for Bellevue, to register receive a free packet of water colours and related materials with a combined value of over $35
Seating Limited – Pre-Registration Required

 

Patsy Surh O’Connell will be at the Bellevue Store on Saturday demonstrating Gongbi: Chinese Ink Painting.  Patsy was at the Seattle Store last year with a demo on Chinese Ink Painting that was very interesting.  If you are interested in watercolor painting or ink painting this FREE demo will give you some insight into some new techniques to try.

 

Saturday, October 31st at 11 am & 1:45 pm
GONGBI: Chinese Ink Painting

Patsy Surh O’Connell 

 

We are having the same Artists and FREE “How To” Art Demos at both our Seattle & Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Stores – kind of a mirror image of demos!

 

This weekend we have Watercolor Artists Theresa Goesling & Cindy Briggs demonstrating Watercolor with their WATERCOLOR: Make Everyday a Painting demo.  You can read about the last time they did this demo at the Seattle Store here at: WATERCOLOR: Make Everyday a Painting, of course every demo is a little different and this will just give you an idea.  Theresa & Cindy will be at the Seattle Store on Saturday and Bellevue on Sunday.

 

Artist Ruth Glenn Little will be demonstrating MULTI MEDIA: Exploring the Abstract with Watercolor and sharing her tips on how to create & integrate Abstraction into your work.  Ruth will be at the Bellevue Store on Saturday and the Seattle Store on Sunday.

 

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Saturday: October 17th from 11 am to 1:30 pm SPECIAL TIME
WATERCOLOR: Make Everyday a Painting 
Theresa Goesling & Cindy Briggs
Don’t miss Theresa & Cindy’s Workshop Nov 8th thru 10th Seattle Store!

Sunday: October 18th at 12 & 2 pm
MULTI MEDIA: Exploring the Abstract with Watercolor
Ruth Glenn Little

 

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Saturday: October 17th from 11 am to 1 pm
MULTI MEDIA: Exploring the Abstract with Watercolor 
Ruth Glenn Little

 

Sunday: October 18th from 11:30 am to 2 pm SPECIAL TIME
WATERCOLOR: Make Everyday a Painting 
Theresa Goesling & Cindy Briggs
Don’t miss Theresa & Cindy’s Workshop Nov 8th thru 10th Seattle Store!

 

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Seattle Store 
Saturday, October 10th Multiple Demos, Trading Card Table, and Try-it Stations
COLLAGRAPH: with Barbara Bruch 10 am to 12
BLOCK PRINTING: with Molly Hashimoto 12 to 2 pm
SOLAR PLATE: with Barbara Mason 2 pm to 4 pm

10:30 to 2:30 Special Printmaking Demo with Mary Shea with Fine Art Papers and more Sponsored by Savoir Faire

  

Bellevue Store
Saturday, October 10th Multiple Demos, Trading Card Table, and Try-it Stations
LINOLEUM PRINTING: with Dan Cautrell 10 am to 12
ETCHING: with Bill Ritchie 1 pm to 3 pm (August etching demo with Bill Ritchie)

 

Also heads up for Printmaking 101 Workshop: Screen Printing (Silkscreen) with Dave Pruneda beginning this Tuesday.  This is Part 3 of a rotating 4 part Series of Printmaking 101 Workshops. 

 

Tuesdays, October 13th & 20th, a series of 2 sessions at the Seattle Store
PRINTMAKING 101: Screenprinting
with Dave Pruneda

 

If you have been curious about the different forms of Printmaking and would like to find out more, then DANIEL SMITH is the place to be this Saturday!

 

This Sunday, October 11th, we have two Pastel FREE How To Art Demos and a FREE Encaustic Demonstration at our DANIEL SMITH Stores in Seattle and Bellevue. 

 

The Seattle Store will have Don Lee demonstrating how to do Portraits in Pastel, and Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch, author of the book;  Encaustic Workshop, will be demonstrating a special Encaustic technique called Encaustic Shellac and Transfer which I believe involves burning and a blowtorch!  Patricia will be available to sign copies of her book, Encaustic Workshop after the demo too.

 

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Sunday, October 11th at 12 & 2 pm
PASTEL: The Pastel Portrait 
Don Lee
Don’t miss Don’s Workshop October 13th Bellevue Store!

Sunday, October 11th at 11 am & 1 pm
IMAGE TRANSFER: Encaustic Shellac and Transfer
Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

Patricia recently did an Encaustic Demo at the Seattle Store that you can read HERE.

 

At the Bellevue Store Jerry Baldwin will be demonstrating How To do Pastel Landscapes, and you can see some beautiful examples of his landscapes on his website.  This is a beginning Pastel demo so if you have not worked with Pastels before, you can get some great tips on getting started with Pastels in Jerry’s demo.

 

 

 

This weekend at our DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store we have FREE Art Demos: Mixed Media with Acrylics with Jacqui Beck and Holiday Cardmaking with Strathmore’s Kari Foteff.

 

SATURDAY:  Jacqui Beck will be sharing her tips on Mixed Media Painting with Acrylics.  Get some new ideas for working in Mixed Media and get inpsired!

 

Saturday, October 3rd at 11 am & 1:45 pm
ACRYLIC: Expressive Mixed Media Painting
Jacqui Beck
Don’t miss Jacqui’s Workshop Oct 28th Bellevue Store! 
 

SUNDAY: Get a jump on the Holidays (Yikes is it really October already?) and Learn How To Make Creative Holiday Cards with Strathmore’s Kari Foteff.  Get tips on creating your Holiday cards now, while you still have time to make them!

 

 

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